Hi, I have searched everywhere for the port and arrival to America from Ireland for my great great great Grandfather Joseph Hughes and nothing. I have checked as much as I know and no passenger list ing for him. I know that I have very little information , so this could be the trouble, but here is what I have if anyone could help me. I am at a brick wall . Joseph Hughes came from Ireland . He must have come during the famine years. He was married to Mary A. and had 2 children both born in Penn. Alexander was born 1850 or 1851 and Henry born 1853 then by 1855 ; the family was in Ohio where Isabella was born 1855 . Then on to Iowa where the rest of the children were born . By 1870 They had a farm in Honey Creek, Iowa . By 1873 Mary A. (joseph's wife ) died. Joseph had other brothers --2 of them John and George ( but don't know if they immigrated to America before or after Joseph or with him. Another brother William was born in Ireland abt. 1831 or 1834 and came with widowed mother. Not sure of her name but in the 1860 census for Gertry , Mo. William is list as age 23 , his wife Martha age 27 , one child , and a 70 year old women by the name of Margarette born in Ireland. I would guess that this is Joseph's mother. Joseph died May 8th 1878 and buried in Victor , Iowa with Mary A, ( His wife.) Joseph's tombstone reads 49yrs. 18mo. 01 days. ON the 1870 census it says that he is 53. NOW WHICH ONE IS RIGHT -- THE TOMBSTONE OF CENSUS. If Tombstone age is right; then he was born abt. 1829. If there is anyone who can help me ; I would be eternally greatfull. My email address is lioneyes@morrisonews.net Thanks, Maxine